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You don’t want me to tell my story, do you?
You don’t want me to tell my story, do you? You don’t like that other people could know your horrors, which are really our horrors. Everything bad that happened to me, happened to you too. I’m sorry it did. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. Read more
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Only in writing
I’ve been hiding Took 36 years to admit things to myself Only my therapist knows I could only be myself in my writing I can still only be myself in my writing But it’s nice to meet that part of myself finally Even if it’s only in writing Read more
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I’m not afraid of Jose by Diana Crescent
I’m not afraid of Kareem I’m not afraid of Jose I’m not afraid of Maria I’m not afraid of Lucia I worked with Kareem at the gas station, we took breaks together and he’d walk me to my car when I worked nights, I know Jose from down the street, he gave me my mail… Read more
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He was a character
And you cut off bits of our family history like a bad editor who doesn’t understand our back story he’s a character you say oh, he was a character he was the villain and you all refused to look and listen it was all there it was all there you just never fucking cared Read more
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Half myself
I live in this world where I am constantly holding back never saying what I want to say for fear of making others mad I wish I were braver that I could say the truth to people I want to but I don’t think they’d even listen to me No one listens to me I… Read more
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In spaces no one wants me
And I am basic Existing in the smallness of what little security I have Alone in my little apartment I think of revolutions without doing a single thing I think of women that came before me that shook the worlds around them painting when the world told them not to educating themselves in a world… Read more
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What if I were
What if I were a little bit bolder? What if I were a little bit meaner? And I don’t even mean meaner I simply mean being direct What if I took as much as a man? Swore as much as a man? Was as angry as a man? What then? Would I reach my full… Read more
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Poetry my family will hate #1
Did you think about me in your secret keeping Do you not speak to me now because it’s hard to watch me unraveling as an adult I should be a secure woman in my thirties with a job able to have a family because I let love in instead, I am by myself is that… Read more